The Stockton Sub dispatcher runs an Amtrak San Joaquin around BNSF 726 West. The BNSF train is sitting on new track, part of the double track recently installed between Oakley and Bixler using $31... (more)

A hot UP Overland Mail West roars through the pine forest just west of Spring Garden.

On New Year's Day 2002, UP 9070 West idles at Wilmot Road in Tucson, awaiting a new crew. The train is parked behind another westbound. These parked trains are reminiscent of the meltdown that occ... (more)

BNSF 7429 North, a train of wind turbine blades on 89-foot flatcats with one GE on each end, heads through downtown Temple where the Ft. Worth Sub and the Lampasas Sub are merged into one.

Santa Fe 8754 West, a hot pig train out of Chicago, passes the east switch of Glen Frazer. A siding that was used infrequently by ATSF in the 1980s and 90s--but used at critical times nonetheless-... (more)

On a clear fall morning at Tucson's Amtrak depot, a private fuel contractor tops off the diesel tanks of the GE Genesis locomotives on the point of today's eastbound Sunset Limited.

GE B40-8W No. 511 leads a westbound up the steep eastern slope of Ash Hill at mp 685. The beautiful, clean air of January allows one to see for a hundred miles in all directions. 511 West will top... (more)

Parked in the middle of the yard, a pair of SP ACs await their next assignment. From here, they could either head toward Fresno, Bakersfield, and Tehachapi Pass. up the East Valley Line toward Ore... (more)

A westbound freight that has dropped off most of its loads east of here rounds a curve into a cut between Christie and Collier on Franklin Canyon's west side.

Prodigious amounts of rain caused disastrous flooding in California in the first half of 1983. SP's line over Tehachapi Pass was badly damaged, and even some areas in the Central Valley saw rerout... (more)

Early on a beautiful spring morning, a Santa Fe 991 train rumbles downhill at Glen Frazer after exiting tunnel 3.

A short eastbound freight crosses the mile-long trestle between Orwood and Middle River, CA. 7419 East will pick up cars in Stockton and Riverbank on its way south through the San Joaquin Valley. ... (more)

Four clean and shiny red and silver Dash 8s lead a hot 991 train at the east end of Marcel, CA. Trains like the 991, with its counterpart, the 199, made Santa Fe an impressive operation by any mea... (more)

Santa Fe 2924 West roars uphill though the narrow approach to tunnel 3 in Franklin Canyon. Until the mid-1980s, Santa Fe used nothing but 4-axle EMDs north of Bakersfield, CA.

BNSF stack trains meet at the outskirts of Gallup. C44-9W No. 4846 is headed toward the West Coast.